Edwin Arlington Robinson grew up in Gardiner, Maine. One of his two brothers died of a drug overdose and the other married the young woman Edwin was in love with. That brother died as an impoverished alcoholic, estranged from his family. Edwin spent two years at Harvard and then moved to New York. Among his admirers as his reputation grew was President Theodore Roosevelt who secured a position for him at the New York Customs House. The poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize three times in the 1920s, remained a bachelor all his life. “Calvary” was published in Robinson’s second collection, The Children of the Night, which appeared in 1897.